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Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu Kondapalli Pydithalli Naidu (born 20 November, 1930) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bobbili constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) political party.
Kondariotissa Kondariotissa (Greek: Κονταριώτισσα), also Kontariotissa, rarely Kountouriotissa (Κουντουριώτισσα) is a village, in Northern Greece. It is located in Pieria prefecture, south of the capital, Katerini.
Kondaveeti Donga Kondaveeti Donga(Telugu: కొండవీటి దొంగ) is a film starring Chiranjeevi which was a massive hit when it was released in 1990. Engaging and with a social cause at the same time, relating to both masses and classes, Kondaveeti Donga remains one of the best movies in the telugu film history.
Kondinin, Western Australia Kondinin (; post code: 6367) is a town located in the Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 280km from Perth via the Brookton Highway and State Route 40 between Corrigin and Hyden. It is the main town in the Shire of Kondinin.
Kondole In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Kondole was a mean and rude man. One night, the performers during a ceremony needed someone to keep a fire going; Kondole was the only one with fire, and he hid in the bush.
Kondopoga Kondopoga (, ) is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is situated on the coast of the Kondopozhskaya gulf of Lake Onego, near the mouth of the Suna River and Kivach Nature Reserve, about 54 km from Petrozavodsk.
Kondratiev wave In economics, Kondratiev waves, also called grand supercycles or surges or long waves, occasionally also referred to as the K-waves, are the term for a regular S-shaped cycle in the modern (Capitalist) world economy. Fifty to sixty years in length, it consists of an alternation of periods of high sectoral growth with periods of slower growth.
Kondreman Kondreman is a weekly cartoon, published on the web since early 2004, and since February 2005 also printed in De Ware Tijd which is the biggest newspaper in Suriname. Kondreman is drawn by Arnout Wittebrood, a Dutchman.
Kondwani Kamiyala Kondwani Kamiyala (born October 10, 1980), is a Malawian writer, poet, journalist and arts reviewer. He has published short stories and poems in many publications, and in 2004 he won the Peer Gynt Literary Award for his short story, The Birthday Gift.
Koneba (woreda) Koneba is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. A triangle-shaped district in the Administrative Zone 2, Koneba is located near the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the west by the Tigray Region, on the north by Dallol, and on the east by Berahle.
Koneswaram temple Koneswaram temple also Thirukoneswaram is a Hindu temple which is located in the town Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. It is dedicated to main deity in Shaivism namely Lord Siva and is one of the five ancient Sivan temples around the island.
Konevsky Monastery Konevsky Monastery (, ) is a Russian Orthodox monastery that occupies Konevets Island in the north-western part of the Lake Ladoga, Leningrad Oblast, Russian Federation. It is often regarded as the twin monastery with the Valaam Monastery, also located on an island in the same lake.
Konex Foundation Konex Foundation (FundaciĂłn Konex) is an Argentine cultural non-profit organization created in 1980 to promote, stimulate, help, and participate in any form of cultural, educational, intellectual, artistic, social, philanthropic, scientific or sports initiative, work, and enterprise, in their most relevant aspects, as defined by its director, Dr.
Konfyt Konfyt is the Afrikaans word for jam, and is also a savoury preserve almost comparable to Turkish Delight, but with a firmer texture, and a stronger taste. The slices are also of a more random shape and thickness.
Kong (band) Kong is an Amsterdam-based band formed in 1988 by guitarist/synth programmer Dirk DeVries, guitarist Aldo Sprenger, bassist/synth programmer Mark Drillich, and drummer Rob Smits. The band's music can best be described as avant-garde containing elements of heavy metal, electronica, and industrial.
Kong Empire The Kong Empire (1710-1895), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder, was a pre-colonial African state centered in north eastern Cote d'Ivoire that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso.
Kong Hee Kong Hee (born August 23 1964) is the founder and senior pastor (Honorary/Volunteer) of City Harvest Church in Singapore. Kong is a Christian leader based in the Charismatic Movement, preaching on promoting character and Charismatic Christianity.
Kong Karls Land Kong Karls Land or King Charles Land is an island group in the Svalbard archipelago, in Arctic Ocean. The island covers an area of 332 km² (128 sq mi) and is made up of the islands of Kongsøya, Svenskøya, Abeløya, Helgolandøya and Tirpitzøya.
Kong Kristian "Kong Kristian" (King Christian), or "Kongesangen" (The King's Song), is the royal anthem of Denmark. Composed by Ditlev Ludvig Rogert and adopted in 1780, it is one of the oldest in the world.
Kong su do Kong Su Do (Ui Do Hoi) is a Korean martial art which is heavily influenced by Japanese and Okinawan karate. Kong Su Do (Karate Do in Japanese--way of the empty hand in English) Ui Do Hoi (organization of believers in the way) is a small organization that practices martial arts in a very "traditional" way.
Kong Yiji Kong Yiji (Chinese characters: 孔乙己, Hanyu Pinyin: Kǒng Yǐjǐ) is a representative work in famous Chinese writer Lu Xun's short story collection Call to Arms (呐喊, published in 1922), and also the name of the main character in the story. His name was said in the story to have derived from a common text for youngsters to practise calligraphy, which has no actual meaning, purely a collection of characters for practise.
Kongamato The Kongamato ("breaker of boats") is a reported pterosaur-like creature from the border area of Zambia, Angola and Congo, Suggested identities include a modern-day Rhamphorhynchus, a misidentified bird (such as the very large and peculiar Saddle-billed Stork), or a giant bat.
Kongara Jaggayya Kongara Jaggayya (31 December, 1928 – 5 March, 2004; also transliterated as Jaggaiah) was a multi-faceted personality from Andhra Pradesh, India, more famous as a Telugu actor in films and plays. He was popularly known as "Kanchu Kantam" Jaggayya (telugu: Kanchu=bronze; Kantam=voice) for his booming voice.
Kongens Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (shortforms Kgs. Lyngby or Lyngby) is the main city in the affluent municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk, just north of Copenhagen, Denmark in the northern part of the island of Zealand (Danish, Sjælland), Denmark's largest island.
Konginkangas bus disaster The Konginkangas bus disaster was a major traffic accident on March 19 2004 outside the Konginkangas housing estate () in Äänekoski, Finland. At 02:08 local time (00:08 UTC) a bus transporting 38 passengers, most of them youths, to the Ruka skiing center for an alpine skiing vacation crashed into a tractor trailer carrying heavy paper rolls weighing about 38 tonnes total.
Konglish Konglish is the use of English words (or words derived from English words) in a Korean context or a Korean dialect mixed with English loanwords. It also includes the use of words that are perceived to be English, but are in fact not English words.
KongĹŤ class battlecruiser The KongĹŤ class battlecruisers were designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British designer Sir George Thurston and the first ship, KongĹŤ, was built in Britain by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness in 1913. She was the last Japanese warship to be built outside Japan and provided the Japanese with a construction template.
Kongnamul Kongnamul (hangul: ) literally means soybean sprouts in the Korean language, but often refers to the seasoned banchan (sidedish) made from the sprouts. It is one of the most common banchan, as well as a basic ingredient of bibimbap.
Kongo Central Kongo Central (formerly Bas-Zaire, then Bas-Congo) is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the current provinces of Kinshasa, Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-ndombe.
Kongo language Kikongo or Kongo is the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo people living in the tropical forests of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo and Angola. It was the base for Kituba, a Bantu creole and lingua franca throughout much of western central Africa.
Kongo people The Bakongo or the Kongo people (meaning "hunter") live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Brazzaville) to Luanda, Angola. In Kikongo their ethnonym is usually given as Essikongo, singular Mwisikongo, though Bakongo is linguistically possible and gaining popularity.
Kongsberg Mesotech Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd, based in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada, is a part of Kongsberg Maritime, a subsidiary of Norwegian industrial concern Kongsberg Gruppen. Mesotech make underwater surveillance and advanced frogman detection sonar systems.
Kongsberg Skiing Museum Kongsberg Skiing Museum (Norwegian: Kongsberg Skimuseum) is a museum of skiing, located in Kongsberg, Norway. It was initially created by the two friends and well known ski jumpers, Birger Ruud and Petter Hugsted.
Kongsberger technique The Kongsberger technique in ski jumping was created in Kongsberg, Norway by Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud. The technique was developed after World War I and was characterized by the upper body being bent at the hip with arms extended to the side and the skis parallel to each other.
Kongsfjorden Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of Spitzbergen, an island which is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic ocean. The inlet is 16 miles (26 km) long and ranges in width from 4 to 9 miles (6 to 14 km).
Kongsi Kongsi () or "clan halls", are benevolent organizations of popular origin found among overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname. This type of social practice arose, it is held, several centuries ago in China.
Kongsi Raya Kongsi Raya is a Malaysian portmanteau, denoting the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Aidilfitri (Eid ul-Fitr) festivals. As the timing of these festivals fluctuate due to their reliance on lunar calendars, they occasionally occur close to one another.
Kongsvinger Fortress Kongsvinger Fortress (Kongsvinger festning) is located in the city and municipality of Kongsvinger in the county of Hedmark, Norway. It is situated on a hill west and north of the Glomma river, standing astride the ancient Vinger Royal Road, which connected Norway and Värmland, Sweden as well as on the north-south Norwegian route along the Glomma.
Kongu Engineering College The Kongu Engineering College (KEC) is an ISO certified institution located at Perundurai in Erode district of Tamil Nadu in India. It was founded by Kongu Vellalar Institute of Technology Trust (KVITT) in 1983.
Kongwa Kongwa () is one of the 5 districts of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Manyara Region, to the East by the Morogoro Region, to the South by the Mpwapwa District and to the West by the Dodoma Rural District.
Koncheto Koncheto ("The Horsie") is a name given to a ridge in the Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria, at an altitude of approximately 2,780 meters, between the peaks Bansko Suhodol (2,884 meters) and Kutelo (2,908 meters). There are steep slopes on either side: the northwestern side is almost vertical and approximately 300 meters deep, while the southwestern side is less steep (approximately 30 degrees) but deeper (800 meters).
KoniakĂłw KoniakĂłw is a village (population 3000) in Beskid ĹšlÄ…ski mountain range in Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship in Poland primarily known for its tradition of intricate lace-making. Recently, some villagers employed their skills in manufacturing lace G-strings and other underwear for women.
Konica was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers. The company traced its history back to 1873 (pre-dating Kodak in the photography business) when pharmacist Rokusaburo Sugiura began selling photographic materials at his store.
Konica FT-1 The Konica FT-1 was the last SLR to be built both under the Konica name and by Konica themselves. The FT-1 was introduced as an improvement on the earlier FS-1, changes included a different meter type (using silicon photodiode cells instead of the previously used gallium arsenide cells), improved quality of electronics, and a faster winder speed.
Koniecpolski Koniecpolski (plural: Koniecpolscy) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family. Because Polish adjectives have different forms for the genders, Koniecpolska is the same form for a female family member.
Konin County Konin County () is a powiat (county) located about 90 km east of Poznań , in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship. The county seat is the town of Konin and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat..
Koninklijk Conservatorium (Brussels) The Koninklijk Conservatorium - Royal is a drama and music college in Brussels, Belgium. An academy for acting and the arts, it has been attended by many of the top actors and actresses in Belgium such as Josse De Pauw, Luk van Mello and Luk De Konink.
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (English: The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp), founded in 1810, houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the fifteenth century.
Koninklijke Marechaussee The Koninklijke Marechaussee (KMar) (Royal Constabulary in English) is one of the four military bodies of the Netherlands. It is a gendarmerie — that is, a military body serving peacetime duties of a normal police force.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond The Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond is the official governing body of field hockey in the Netherlands. It governs the field hockey leagues, as well as the Netherlands national field hockey team and the Netherlands women's national field hockey team.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij The Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM) is the Dutch voluntary organization tasked with saving lives at sea along the Dutch coast of the North Sea and on the IJsselmeer. For that purpose, it maintains 39 stations from which its lifeboats operate.
Konishi anomaly In theoretical physics, the Konishi anomaly is the violation of the conservation of the Noether current associated with certain transformations in theories with N=1 supersymmetry. More precisely, this transformation changes the phase of a chiral superfield.
Konisi Yabaki Konisi Tabu Yabaki is a Fijian politician from the southern island of Kadavu. He served in the Cabinet from 2000 to 2006, but lost his portfolios as Minister for Fisheries and Forests after the parliamentary election of 6-13 May 2006.
Konitsa Konitsa (Greek: Κόνιτσα) is a town in Epirus, Greece, near the Albanian border. It lies amphi-theatre shaped on a mountain slope of the Pindos mountain range, overlooking the valley where the river Aoos meets the river Voidomatis.
Koniuchy massacre The Kaniūkai (Koniuchy) massacre was a massacre carried out by Jewish and Soviet partisans during the Second World War in the Polish village of Kaniūkai (before 1939 in Stołpce county of Nowogrodzkie voivodship; in 1944 in Jašiūnai Municipality, Eišiškės County of Lithuania, Reichskommissariat Ostland; currently the village is in the Šalčininkai district municipality of Lithuania). Koniuchy is the Polish name for that village.
Konix Multisystem The Konix Multisystem was an unreleased game console by British computer peripheral company Konix. It was widely announced in the computing press in 1989, and was intended to follow the success of the company's range of joysticks.
Konk (band) Formed in 1980 in New York City, KONK was a band that emerged during a period marked by the Post-Punk/No-Wave and Disco scenes which were prevalent at the time. KONK won the attention of both scenes by playing a hybrid of the two musical styles which involved the blending of a Punk attitude with the carefree nature of Disco's dance crowd.
Konkan The Konkan, also called the Konkan Coast or Karavali is the name given to a stretch of rugged and beautiful section of the western coastline of India from Raigad to Mangalore. It includes Mumbai Region and Thane District.
Konkani Brahmins Konkani brahmins are those Brahmins whose mother-tongue is Konkani, a language spoken in some areas of the western coast of India. Konkani brahmins hails mainly from the southern part of the Maharashtra coast, Goa and coastal Karnataka.
Konkapot River The Konkapot River is a river in southwestern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. It is a tributary of the Housatonic River, not to be confused with the smaller Konkapot Brook in Stockbridge (another Housatonic tributary).
Konkokyo Konkokyo (金光教) is a relatively new religion of Japanese origin also regarded as a type of Sect Shinto. It is a syncretic, henotheistic and panentheistic religion, which worships God under the name of Tenchi Kane No Kami, the Golden God of Heaven and Earth.
Konkordiaplatz The Konkordiaplatz is a large flat area of snow and ice lying just to the south of the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps. Its notable feature is that it is the junction of four different glaciers coming down from the surrounding mountains.
Konkrete Jungle Konkrete Jungle is billed as the world's longest consistently running weekly jungle drum and bass event. Since 1994, Konkrete Jungle plays to New York City's jungle drum and bass community through its weekly events; it is famous enough to have influence over the drum-and-bass community.
Kono language The Kono language (pronounced Konnoh) is a language spoken in Sierra Leone by the Kono tribe. The Kono District is situated in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone and contains 14 chiefdoms, each headed by a Paramount Chief.
Kono Tensei Kono Tensei (河野 典生) is a Japanese science fiction writer. Among other works, he has written Triceratops (トライーセラトプス), which has been collected in The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G.
Konoe Atsumaro Prince (10 August 1863 – 1 January 1904) was a Japanese statesman, the 3rd President of the House of Peers and 7th President of the Gakushuin Peer's School in Meiji period Japan. He was also the father of Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro.
Konoe family The Konoe family (近衛家 Konoe-ke) was a branch of the Fujiwara clan. As one of the five regent houses, the Konoe family monopolized the offices of Sessho and Kampaku along with Takatsukasa, Kujo, Nijo and Ichijo families.
Konolfingen Konolfingen is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, and is the capital of the district of Konolfingen. It is a relatively new commune, being formed from the union of Gysenstein and Stalden in 1933.
Konon Molody Konon Trofimovich Molody (January 17 1922-September 91970) was a Soviet intelligence officer, better known in the West as Gordon Lonsdale. He was an illegal resident spy during the Cold War and the mastermind of the Portland Spy Ring.
Konono N°1 Konono N°1 is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé (a traditional instrument similar to the mbira) with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard.
Konope Konope or Conope (Greek: ) and later, Arsinoe (Greek: ) or Arsinoia (Greek: ), was an ancient city of Aetolia, near the eastern bank of the Achelous River, and 20 stadia from the ford of this river; near the modern village of Angelokastro (AngelĂłkastro, Anghelokastro) in the Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture, Greece. It was only a village, until it was enlarged by Arsinoe, the wife and sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
Konopiště Konopiště is a château (castle) located in the Czech Republic, about 50 km southeast of Prague, outside the city of Benešov. It has become famous as the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo triggered World War I.
Konosuke Matsushita Konosuke Matsushita (松下 幸之助 Matsushita Kōnosuke, November 27, 1894 – April 27, 1989) was a Japanese industrialist, the founder of Matsushita Electric, a company based in the suburb of Kadoma (on the Keihan line), Osaka in Japan. For Japanese, he is known as "the god of management".
Konotopski Konotopski is a typical Ukrainian gentry family, like many other Szlachta houses of The Kingdom of Poland and The Duchy of Ruthenia, later prominent in Ukrainian history, science, and arts. They used the Coat of arms of Belina.
Konpa direct Konpa direct, also known as compass direct, or Kompa, is an Haitian genre consisting of a combination of folklore, Tipico, Cuban and African rhythms. It existed predominantly in the 1960s and 70s with the popularity of mini-jazz and introduction of transistor radios.
Konqueror Konqueror is a file manager, web browser and file viewer, which was developed as part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) by volunteers and runs on most Unix-like operating systems. Like the rest of the "kdebase" package in which Konqueror is distributed, Konqueror is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Konrad Adenauer Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer (), January 5, 1876 – April 19, 1967) was a conservative German statesman. Although his political career spanned 60 years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as Chancellor of West Germany from 1949–1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966.
Konrad Adenauer Foundation The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung) (KAS) is a German research foundation associated with that country's Christian Democratic Union. It was founded in 1956 as the "Society for Christian Democratic Education Work" and renamed after the former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1964.
Konrad Becker Konrad Becker is a hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer, Director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0, Public Netbase and World-Information.Org, he has been active in electronic media as an artist, writer, composer as well as curator, producer and organizer.
Konrad Duden Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden (January 3, 1829 – August 1, 1911) was a Gymnasium (high school) teacher who became a philologist. He founded the well-known German language dictionary bearing his name Duden.
Konrad Fuchs Konrad Fuchs (October 15, 1897 - November 13, 2006) was, at the time of his death, the oldest living Catholic priest in Europe (109 years and 29 days old), Germany's second-oldest man, and one of the last German WWI veterans.
Konrad Gołoś Konrad Gołoś (born September 15, 1982 in Siedlce) is a Polish footballer who plays for Wisła Kraków. He is a midfielder who made his league debut on August 7, 2004 and is an official player of the squad since the beginning of the 2005/06 season, having transferred from Polonia Warszawa.
Konrad Heiden Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 — 18 June 1966) was an influential journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for his biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow.
Konrad Hesse Konrad Hesse (* January 29 1919 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † March 15 2005 in Freiburg) was a German Jurisprudence scientist and he was, from 1975 to 1987, Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
Konrad I, Count of WĂĽrttemberg Conrad I of WĂĽrttemberg ("Konrad von Wirtinisberc, C(u) onradus de Wirdeberch") was the first ruler of the castle of Wirtemberg 1083-1110, and is first mentioned in 1081. He is considered to be founder of the WĂĽrttemberg dynasty.
Konrad Kujau Konrad Paul Kujau (June 27, 1938, Löbau, Saxony - September 12, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany) was an artist and forger who became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received 2.5 million DM from the magazine Stern.
Konrad Lorenz Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna – February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Konrad Mägi Konrad Mägi (November 1, 1878 – August 15, 1925) was an Estonian landscape painter. He was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century, and Mägi's works on motives of the island of Saaremaa are the first modern Estonian nature paintings.
Konrad Seitz Konrad Seitz (1934 in Munich) is a German academic and diplomat. He has studied Philosophy, History and Classical Philology in Munich and International Economics and International Law at Fletcher School (Tufts-Harvard, MA, 1967).
Konrad Spindler Konrad Spindler (June 20, 1939 in Leipzig - April 17, 2005 in Innsbruck) was a world known professor at the institute of early history in Innsbruck, Austria. Konrad Spindler is thought to be the sixth victim of the mysterious Ă–tzi the Iceman curse.
Konrad Stäheli Konrad Stäheli (17 December 1866 - 5 November 1931) was a Swiss sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won three gold medals – in the Military Pistol team and the Military Rifle team, and in the Military Rifle individual.
Konrad von Marburg Konrad von Marburg (sometimes Anglicised as Conrad of Marburg) was a 13th century German inquisitor. He was commissioned by the Pope to combat the Albigensians, whom the Roman Catholic Church considered heretics.
Konrad von Wallenrode Konrad IV von Wallenrode (born between 1330 and 1340, died 23 July 1393) came from a family with a rich knightly tradition that had its roots in Franken and had resided in Schwabach, south of NĂĽrnberg. Wallenrode was the name of a town in East Prussia, though.
Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse (June 22 1910 – December 18 1995) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional tape-stored-program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941.
Konrad, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen John Frederick Konrad Charles Edward Horst Arnold Matthew, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, German: Johann Friedrich Konrad Carl Eduard Horst Arnold Matthias Prinz zu Sachsen-Meiningen (b. Ziegenberg, 14 April 1952) is the current head of the ducal family of Saxe-Meiningen and nominal Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Hildburghausen.
Konsh Valley The Konsh Valley is located on extreme Northern border of the Mansehra district of northwestern Pakistan. The town of Battal is considered to be the headquarter of the valley, which has been severely damaged by the October 8th earth quake.
Konso Konso (also known as Karati) is a town on the Segen River in southwestern Ethiopia. The capital of the Konso special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of and an elevation of 1650 meters.
Konsojaya Trading Company The Konsojaya Trading Company was a shell company cofounded by Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as "Hambali", and his Chinese Malaysian wife, Noralwizah Lee Abdullah on June 1994. The company was based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Konstamonitou monastery Konstamonitou monastery (Greek: Μονή Κοσταμονίτου) is an orthodox christian monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks twentieth in the hierarchy of the athonite monasteries.
Konstantin Aksakov Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: Константин Аксаков) (1817 - 1860) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. The writer Sergey Aksakov was his father, and the journalist Ivan Aksakov was his younger brother.

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